your backups aren't required to use the Default-Policy. You can add lines
to your RMAN scripts that tell it which policy to use. This is discussed
in a thread from last september:
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/2001-September/005607.htm
l

enjoy
-charlie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Suen [mailto:suen AT cosmos.buffalo DOT edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:47 PM
> To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU Oracle Agent / RMAN
> 
> 
> 
> Hello EveryOne
> 
>       I have a Question about the Retention and stuff.. here is what I
>       understand (I think)
> 
>       1) The Retention Setting in the "Default-Policy" is the
>               REAL/Actual retention of the NBU Images
>       2) The Retention Setting in the Schedules (Automatic,
>               Differential, Cumulative) is just used to find 
> out "When" should the
>               backup being run.
>       3) Expiring images under NBU does NOT expire the reference under
>               RMAN
> 
>       O.K.. with that...
> 
>       Since I have to use RMAN to do the expire, Can I set 
> the Retention
>       under "Default-Policy" to be INFINITY
> 
>       AND the Retention Setting under the Schedules 
> (Auto,Diff) ALSO to 
>       be INFINITY ???
> 
>       Then I just use RMAN to do ALL of the expire??
> 
>       BTW, I have NBU 3.4.2 on Solaris
> 
> 
>       Is that make sense or I am missing somewhere along the line??
> 
> 
>       Thank you very much for your help...
> 
> 
>       thanks
> 
>                       Mike
> 
>       
> 
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